Update wood cutting and splitter Att. Paul - Lloyde

If this splitter could talk or tell me how many blocks of wood it split and I had a nickel for every one it did I wouldn't be working now. When we ran our Case dealership we sold these American Woodspliters, built in Black River NY. They made many models from basic self contained units with a 5HP B&S to 20HP custom units. Our most popular unit was the vertical 3pt hitch unit that utilized the tractor hyds. This basic 1978+- model had 2 wheelbarrow wheels and a simple tab on the end to drop a pin into to transport it behind a tractor. Back in that time I clear cut some wooded area on the farm to straighten out some feilds. Logs went to market and fire wood was sold locally. My kids were at working age and we worked hard on weekends, but they shared in the income from their hard work and today they look back on those times as having fun, rather than work. We totally used up 1 B&S motor, Had one which didn't survive a crash after falling out of a PU, OOPS. In 1990 I reconstructed it. One had to litterally work on his/her knees to operate it. (back pain) I welded the raised axle struts on the rear and a caster on a strut on the front. I also welded the A frame for the 3pt on the oil tank, plus I incorperated an easily detachable toung on the front so a tractor or 4wheeler could tow it. Makes it easy to move in garage when not in use also, and now high enough to reduce bending while splitting. The seat was incorperated for a very special Family friend that loved to be a part of all our activities. He is pictured in the last pic and now enjoying things in the world beyond.

Cool stuff. I was gonna say, it's not work when a wood splitter has a seat to sit on!

--->Paul

Ayup, ACG, we have an American 4 ft horizontal 3pt hitch with a PTO pump, and it will "Git er done!"

That is a chunk of Sugar Maple, 3ft long & 3ft in diameter.

Very cool. Great idea! I like it. Was it built in Black River, as in middle of nowhere, got to get there only by snowmobile Black River?? North of Old Forge?

I may incorporate that wheel system into mine, sure is awkward after I drop it off the 3 point, would be nice to roll it.

Thanks!

Very very nice. Thanks for the pictures and explaination. Paul

I see the pallet forks in the foreground. That's still hard work man handling the peices. We did the same when thefamily sugarbush was still in operation. We fueled tow evaporators. One a4X20' and a 5X24', Grimm's made in Ruttland VT. I can remember as a teenager running limb wood through a buzz saw on the front of the CASE SC, and splitting 3' wood by hand with mall and wedges.I thought back then that there had to be something easier than that. When I got out of college in 68 Ag Engineering Associate degree in Ag Engineering, I found a peice of 12" I beam, ordered a 4"X 3' hyd cylinder and single spool valve and fabed a wood spliter to handle the evaporator wood, My dad got the bill for the hyd components and chewed me a new A Hole, untill we put it to work. We made several modifications and repairs to it, over the years but we finally took it off Dads Case 770 4 years ago when we restored the tractor we sold the old homemade splitter for more than the cylinder and valve cost and used it for 38 years.

I hope you have a pic. of Black River. I have viewed all your pics. Ther're great, keep them coming. We are blessed with this country's great beauty, and thanks to the people on this forum such as you, we can all share and appreciate what many take for granted or totally miss.